The same happens to chef. I've tried to find a way to keep history, but I haven't found any. Take into account that moving to the main repo also implies a "restructure" of the project. In the case of Chef, the "core" folder is moved to "apis", and the "enterprisechef" one to "providers".
On 8 October 2014 16:21, Andrew Phillips <aphill...@qrmedia.com> wrote: >> While this wouldn't retain history, we can cite the >> jclouds-labs-openstack repo for history. Other ideas welcome. > > > Sounds good to me - what are we doing with jclouds-chef, which is also > undergoing a similar merge at this time? > > Would filter-branch [1] help in preserving history in some way? Could we > "convert" the repo to a branch on master and submit a PR to merge that? > > ap > > [1] http://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch